An iron law of the universe is the opposite law of liberalism, which states that whatever the left is saying, assume the opposite and you will get close to the truth. It is not a perfect rule in that the opposite is obvious or correct. It is just a good place to start when trying to figure out what they are doing. Projection plays a central role in the interior life of the progressive hive mind, so they inevitably accuse the enemies of the hive of doing what the hive is doing or has done.
An old example comes from the heady days of the Tea Party, which was a genuine populist and grassroots response to the cultural revolution. Normal, middle-class people started to organize against the Obama administration, but also the sissies of conservatism who were hiding under their beds at the time. Suddenly, people were turning up to protest and fight back against the gathering madness. It was a foreshadowing of what would come in 2016.
The response by the left was to accuse these people of being part of a conspiracy organized by the enemies of history. Nancy Pelosi famously said it was not a grassroots movement, but an AstroTurf movement. For those who do not know, AstroTurf is a genericized brand name or proprietary eponym for fake grass. Of course, what was true at the time and true to this day is the “grassroots” support of the left was bought and paid for by tax dollars laundered through the Blob.
It was one of those moments that revealed something about the sorts of people who end up in left-wing social movements. They always assume that the enemies of the hive operate as they do and will act like they would if given the chance. It is why they were sure Trump would trample your civil rights after he won in 2016. They knew that if they were in his position, that is what they would do. After the color revolution that toppled Trump and installed Biden, it is exactly what they did.
Now that Trump is back, we see the opposite rule kicking in as part of their coping strategy and effort to organize a response. The crazies are now free speech warriors, claiming Trump is going to start censoring people online. The very same people who chanted “freedom of speech is not freedom of reach” as anyone with a sober thought in their head was evicted from Twitter are now carrying on as if they are Ann Frank, hiding in the attic from the MAGA police.
This story about how a handful of zombies turned up to yell at a Congressman is framed as a populist rebellion. These are people made angry by their television, so they show up on command at this event to be angry. A defining feature of these old, white progressives is they have no idea why they are angry. The person on their television is angry, so they are angry. They are the sort that started saying “keev” the weekend the war in Ukraine started, as if they always said it that way.
Of course, nothing about this is on the level. That is the great lesson of the populist rebellion that started with the Tea Party. Our politics have been entirely fake for decades, manufactured and controlled using government money. These efforts to repeat what worked in the past affirm it. Our politics for the last several decades have been pretty close to the opposite of what was beamed to us. “Our democracy” was absolute party control.
All ideologies rely on lies to fill the gap between their vision of the moral society and the reality of the human condition. This habit explains the violence that comes when the ideologues gain control. The lies are replaced by a program to fill the gap between ideology and reality. That gap is always filled with corpses, but it is never completely filled, so the lies return as the cost-effective option. In time, they become so comfortable with the lies that lying is the solution to everything.
We are seeing this in the “resistance” being rolled out in the media. It is not connected with reality but dreamed up by the same people who claimed they were defending democracy when they were harassing people for Facebook posts. The same narrative makers who swore all their failed schemes were working right up until it was obvious that they were not working are now busy imagining a scenario in which they are carried back to power on the shoulders of the people.
Things like the opposite rule are part of the essential appeal of ideology, which is an escape from reality. This is what ideology inherits from Christianity. The losers drawn to the new religion spreading around the Roman Empire were attracted to the promise of escape from this life. If they followed this new religion, they would one day stand shoulder to shoulder with the great men of this age in the sight of God. Ideology says the same thing but stops at the bit about God.
Libertarians imagine that one day they will be yeoman farmers, totally self-sufficient and liberated like the rich guys they admire. The antifascist imagines herself as a stunning and brave member of the committee, as respected as the men who never pay much attention to her. The conservative believes he will one day be rich like Donald Trump, but classy like Bill Buckley. The fascist imagines himself in a snappy uniform in charge of men, instead of a loser playing video games all day.
This is what brings us back to the opposite rule of liberalism. The last ideology, like all ideology, requires the suspension of disbelief. Accusing the bad guys of doing what you have done or are currently doing is a way to escape the reality of politics. It is not a fight for power, but a great crusade between white hats and black hats. To think otherwise is to be back in the reality from which you are trying to escape. The “resistance” to Trump are not losers, but the heroes of a story they are now writing.
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The same people who are sobbing about government workers being fired spent years advocating for people like me who refused the covid shot to be fired. They almost managed to do it. I have no sympathy for any of these people.
Nor did they care when Bill Clinton was the one doing the firing. Clinton fired 400,000 federal employees.
Many people suffer from this. Both left and right. Trumps tax cuts in his first term and probably this term will be like covid checks. The corporations will get the lion share of the stimulus and the people will get crumbs.
They also didn’t care when Clinton sent cops armed with machine guns to deport screaming children at gunpoint to communist Cuba. One can only imagine the outcry if Trump’s people were doing this:
Jim Goldman and Elian Gonzalez – Elián González – Wikipedia
It sure feels like, this week, the leftists found their footing and are back on the offensive. Their attacks are basically the same as they were in 2017. They’re trying to turn Elon Musk into Sean Spicer. The Free World (led by Macron this time) is uniting against Trump. Brave feds are resisting by not sending a requested email. Trump is angry that he keeps losing and just wants to watch the gorilla channel and go to bed. John Leibowitz and Jon Oliver are Speaking Truth to Power in a stunning fashion. Of course the world isn’t what it was… Read more »
Normies seem to broadly support what Trump is doing in a way they did not in 2017. The necessity of action on the federal leviathan, immigration, the MIC, etc. is very obvious. Yeah, because now it’s obvious it’s OUR MONEY getting wasted by a completely unresponsive bureaucracy on crap nobody wants or needs. People are struggling in an economy stuffed full of inflated dollars and don’t want to hear abut USAID sending $50 Million to some Backwaterstan country for queer interpretive dance programs and then being arrogantly told “Well it’s just a drop in the bucket.” Screw. You. People are… Read more »
Indeed, but only part of our money is being wasted…most of it is simply being stolen or handed out to insiders (like Pelosi getting 14 million for her vineyard) or anti-American terrorists, governments, media like the BBC, Public Broadcasting and CNN, and NGO’s…The US might well have a budget surplus if all of that theft and graft were eliminated…
“…only part of our money is being wasted…most of it is simply being stolen or handed out to insiders…” Bingo! Does anyone really believe $50M for “queer interpretive dance” is a thing? It’s just a moniker to label a cut of the “swag” going to provide some payoff to who knows whom? It’s not misdirected funds. It’s money being stolen and washed. Pure theft. Such a scheme is nothing new. We see such all the time in the private sector where some company’s accountant embezzles company funds. Hell we had here, in AZ, an *entire* county where the treasurer stole… Read more »
A rare hatepoast from mmack. Me likey!
Normie’s opinion on any subject is neither sought or desired. They (we) are completely irrelevant. Factions of the ruling elite want this to happen and that is why it is happening.
What the hell is normie going to do about anything? Vote harder? The leviathan has been growing non-stop for 80 years across every administration since FDR regardless of the congressional makeup or who was President. The only time normie ever gets part of what he wants is when normie and the elite’s desires align.
“People are already taxed to the gills and to find out that if a private citizen or firm did exactly what the government did with USAID money we’d be facing a RICO suit for money laundering ain’t gonna sit too well, especially when it comes out as we pull our tax forms and receipts together.”
May I disagree? IMO, the *vast* majority of the population–taxpayers or not–are entirely unaware of any of this stuff and too stupid to understand it if they were.
They’re yelling but there’s nothing behind it. Their behavior during Covid was recent enough that they have to leave huge gaps in their complaints. Formally these gaps would be filled in with regime nonsense but with megaphone gone they’re left with all carrot and no stick, and the carrot is old and nasty.
Shitlibs were always going to strike back in a more organized way.
But on the only issues that really matter: the Squatamlen invasion, DOGE and ending the Rothschild wars, voters are still strongly in support of Trump.
As long as he doesn’t blink, Trump should get victories on all 3 fronts, regardless of what the shrieking harridans on MSNBC have to say abou it
I haven’t seem a lot of talk on immigration. It’s become so toxic especially after the last four years, it’s like they finally came to their senses and realized that Americans want these people out, no ifs ands or buts. The focus definitely is on DOGE, because DOGE has a guy on the toop they can target and isolate (as I mentioned, they are trying to turn him into an idiot buffoon like Sean Spicer). After that is Ukraine, portraying Zelenskyyyyyyyyyyyyy as a superhero while Europe is stepping up to fill the void.
Problem is that NATO, sans USA, could not even wipe their ass without US toilet paper. All this nonsense from Macron is just that. Trump does, or should do, what he wants, signs what is needed and Macron and company will/can do nothing. Should they decide to take up station in Ukraine, Putin will—as he has since the war began—consider them belligerents and lawful targets of war. In any event, the USA is out of there wrt military support and Russia can sweep up the rest.
As is said, “The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on”.
There is a story floating around that the mercenary entrepreneur Erik Prinz has proposed a plan to the Trump administration to fast track the mass expulsion of millions of illegal aliens using planes and buses on a massive scale. The suggested cost of this plan is $25 billion. The current pace of expulsions will likely rid us of the illegals sometime in the next century, so a plan like Prinz’s is likely the only way to make a significant dent in the illegal population any time soon.
Freddie Prinze disapproves of this plan!
This may be correct but it strikes me as increasingly impotent rage. Also, if they get high on their own supply, for the first time I think they might get crushed.
They are now shaking down the EU governments to step in the shoes of USAID.
Between election and swearing-in, the Grrls screamed bloody murder: Orangester will hunt us all down and lock us up! This, as you say, reflects their souls, displaying what they’d like to do to you and me, and in fact what they did after J6; the Left sees the Right as the hated enemy, but the Right sees the Left as misguided. Oh noes! We’re being hunted! is sure to push the Protection Button in millions of U.S. men. The result is the Right never punishes the Left for its criminal and totalitarian conduct. Like Trump, on election night 2016, pardoning… Read more »
Unless there are thousands(10s of thousands?, 100s of thousands?) arrests, trials and convictions nothing of consequence will change. Given that majority of the prosecutors, law enforcement, and judiciary went along with and/or participated in the whole scam and are still in place who will enforce “the Law”.
Doesn’t matter anyway; the corruption is both total *and* terminal. The patient will *not* recover. The country will not continue to exist in its present configuration. Ten years MAX; almost certainly less. A national divorce is baked into the cake. And it won’t be the first. “That which hath been will be again, and there is no new thing under the sun.”
“The result is the Right never punishes the Left for its criminal and totalitarian conduct.”
This! Trump can only lose if he gives up and “makes nice”. If he tries and fails, there is always tomorrow. If he gives up, there is no tomorrow. Whatever one thinks of Trump, he rides a sea change in public opinion.
Yes, he must strike while the iron is hot. Opportunities like this come along almost never.
Julius Caeser’s penchant for magnanimity toward Roman political opponents worked well for him until it didn’t one mid-March. He didn’t survive his post Rubicon reality check. Trump narrowly survived his Ides and had eight years of state sponsored persecutions. He crosses the Rubicon now I think. He is about legacy. He survived the lawfare and summer bullet. I think perhaps gone is the art of the deal guy prepared to let bygones be bygone. I don’t know if he succeeds but it seems he learned the lesson Caesar didn’t get the chance to.
The Right has its own playbook. While leftists shriek and project, the ‘right’ is telling White people that Happy Days Are Here Again. Don’t worry about anti-White hatred and replacement; an EO has said no more DEI in fedgov so BigCorp will stop hiring H-1bs, stop the interracial advertising, and hire you! Except, that’s not happening. Just like Reagan didn’t cut government spending and didn’t stop immigration. Chris Rufo is overjoyed that soon we’ll all be miscegenated tan/brown, just like his hapa kids, so White guys need to suck it up and go work at Panda Express. This joyous celebration… Read more »
I see many on our side so optimistic. Maybe I’ve been disappointed too many times, but I don’t feel that optimism.
We get inspiring words from Homan about deportations, but then I see articles that say that the number of deportations is lower than under Biden. Who can tell?
Musk tells us he is slashing billions but maybe he’s just pushing hype like he did with electric trucks.
Only time will tell. I’d like to celebrate.
One victory is exposing all of the absurd spending of USAID, which no one disputes.
I envision politicians and wealthy elites scrambling for the last night plane out of Casablanca… justice hot on their trail. However, you are likely correct Madam. I am so thoroughly descended from American founding stock as to be a hopelessly hopeful retard.
This is indeed a problem but I think most men are less hesitant about punishing other people’s daughters – especially when they’re 40+ year old blue haired hags. No normal man will weep over Nancy Pelosi dangling from a lamp post, nor for the fat HR manager at his workplace. Hard to imagine the needful will be done, but I’ve seen a lot of things happen the last few weeks I thought were impossible. We’ll see. Much could be accomplished by severely punishing a few of the very worst. Not many women would have to be hanged before the rest… Read more »
“The result is the Right never punishes the Left for its criminal and totalitarian conduct.”
That’s because there is no “Right.”
I’m guessing the average consumer/voter has experienced at least 50% inflation since the Tea Party. The bleating of the media faux “resistance” doesn’t resonate now as folks hunker down at the kitchen table over their eye-popping monthly bills. The ratings, such as they are, contain at least directional truth – look at all the CNN/MSNBC firings. The Washington Post Op/Ed editor resigned yesterday rather than follow Bezos’ directive for more balance. The dogs, whipped by inflation, just aren’t consuming the media “dog food” anymore and the Oligarchs realize it. You just cannot gaslight people after all this inflation.
More then 50%. Whatever the CPI states, i’d add at least 2 or 3% to it. Officially we’ve had 30% inflation since 2020, and all the years since 2008 it was around 1 or 2%. They saw the turmoil high inflation created in the 70’s and early 80’s and then decided why tell the truth when you can lie and save money on social security payments. Boskin commission i believe it was.
The fascist imagines himself in a snappy uniform in charge of men, instead of a loser playing video games all day.
Ouch Zman, that hurt!
He forgot the other type: the Dissident Wordcel. He imagines his work being lauded in the future; perhaps a statue erected, instead of bitching into the virtual void.
There is a real dichotomy to online dissident discourse. On the one hand, it gets our message out more widely than before. On the other, it diverts our energy from what could often be more effective “meat space” organizing. These things are true simultaneously.
Heh heh. I thought I heard the bawl of an ox being gored.
“Libertarians imagine that one day they will be yeoman farmers, totally self-sufficient and liberated like the rich guys they admire. The antifascist imagines herself as a stunning and brave member of the committee, as respected as the men who never pay much attention to her. The conservative believes he will one day be rich like Donald Trump, but classy like Bill Buckley. The fascist imagines himself in a snappy uniform in charge of men, instead of a loser playing video games all day.”
Steinbeck talked about temporarily embarrassed millionaires, but they don’t hold a candle to the temporarily embarrassed nomenklatura.
That is a great comparison. I shall steal it and call it my own.
It’s a standard view of /ourguys/, too, as examples of “elite overproduction.” The left/regime/blob (whatever you like) is a closed social circle that excludes almost all whom meritocracy would admit, and those who feel most unjustly excluded—most barely excluded—are crippled by longing for its embrace. Sailer and Hanania come to mind. If only Stalin knew how clever I am… Actually, great as he is, he must! So I’ll speak always as if into the ear of the throne… Relevant to the news, they’re both great admirers of alpha trannies, supposedly now getting mass fired from NSA/etc. Hanania held it up… Read more »
Sailer is a 1980’s conservative and Banania is a millennial goofball and internet troll.
Sailer and Hanania are freelancers who want to be picked up and used as controlled opposition/regime enforcers. It’s a pathetic thing to watch and the impulse deserves a name better than wannabe controlled opposition/regime enforcers. I’m coming up empty, though.
It seems to have been lost in the shuffle, but Hanania got paid by USAID.
hahahaha….my first time learning that. His audition paid off!
It is definitely true that the left always projects. But they end up projecting more for their masters than for themselves they believe everything they are told to believe and get likes for from fellow travelers on social media. We are all the heroes of our own story, no one more so than a female leftist. The white leftist is desperate to be seen as a good, smart person. A primary requirement is to immediately repeat whatever you are told to say. Since they are superior beings, the can’t admit that they are spouting lies or projecting so they convince… Read more »
The “left” screeches because that’s what the left does, but since 2020 they’ve lost a critical mass of oligarchical support (for whatever reason). So that now it’s largely toothless screeching, whereas for a while there it was actually something to be feared. This one baizuo I know, who left me speechless in 2022 (I think it was) when she told me that we live in a right wing dystopia, today could have more of a point. Not that we do, but that there is more substance today to back that claim than there was then. Whether or not “our” oligarchs… Read more »
In a world where every politician, CEO, physician, judge and NFL coach was a nuggra or a deviant, and the only white people alive were wearing shackles or in dungeons, the Leftist would still believe she lives in a righwing dystopia. These people are disturbed mutants. Nothing more, nothing less.
“but since 2020 they’ve lost a critical mass of oligarchical support”
If you are the ones rigging the vote, you know how the actual vote really is. Perhaps they’re trying to get in front of something they’ve suppressed for a long time. We all talk about how the media lies, well perhaps they know that level of lying isn’t possible anymore and still get people but all the devoted to believe?
One man’s dystopia is another man’s utopia.
Yep, one mans freedom fighter is another mans terrorist. The first time i thought of this was watching the movie Red Dawn and then thinking about our war on terror. Why is it right for us to fight back to protect our “homeland” but terrorism when others do it?
The sine qua non of terrorism is the purpositive slaughter of non-combatants. And it applies equally regardless of who’s doing the slaughtering. But this is not to say that military conquest of nations–the neocon/BFE stock in trade–is any less repulsive.
Terrorism = deliberately targeting civilians to achieve a political goal. Whether that’s on a Pan Am flight, in a Moscow theater, or at Dresden. Freedom fighters are freedom fighters. Terrorists are terrorists. Although some people might lie to confuse the two.
I independently arrived at the Opposite Theory about 20 years ago. Like everyone else I watched the left make promises and deliver the exact opposite – but I wrote that off as stupidity and incompetence on their part, whereas the Dissidents seem to ascribe it to deliberate malice. I wonder if it’s not both?
Reality requires the suspension of disbelief.
A fine essay, as usual (and thus, easily taken for granted). In an age where annoying terminology increases and abounds seemingly without constraint, “democracy” is my pick for most annoying term. For one, there ain’t no democracy. All governments of any notable size are oligarchies. Human beings have simply never figured out how to mass-organize in any other fashion. To pretend that power is with the common rabble is utterly silly. And what is American-style so-called democracy in practice? Organized bribery. Big-moneyed interests own all the so-called “representatives” of democracy. While such an arrangement in its current U.S. form may… Read more »
Good post. But whether Our Democracy is preferable to some form of tyranny is very much debatable.
That all depends on whose tyranny it is, doesn’t it
Zackly. Tyranny is neither implicitly inferior or superior to democracy. The nature of the specific tyranny spells all the difference.
I suppose it would depend on the specific tyranny. Look, I’m not the type of fella who would trust the people allegedly in charge even if they claimed to be entirely on my side. I will be forever leery of granting my best friend a degree of power that I wouldn’t want my worst enemy to end up with. It wouldn’t be unfair to dub me a cynic regarding human nature.
I’m perhaps equally cynical. But we’ve seen human nature operate through Our Democracy the last 60 years, and it’s been no bargain.
The great men of this age may not be so great in the sight of our God.
It seems that some of our great men of our age idea of serving mankind might come from the episode of the Twilight Zone called ‘To Serve Man’.
It’s a cookbook!
Great reference! Twilight Zone was pretty hit-or-miss overall, but “To Serve Man” completely earned its classic status. One of the all-time best twist endings!
These efforts to repeat what worked in the past affirm it.
“Failed efforts” but that is implicit. It is amusing to watch senators and congressmen stand in front of X bureaucracy shaking their fists in the name of the people while one or two dozen people “protest” in solidarity. I knew much of it was astroturf but about all of it is. To those who said eliminate/marginalize about one or two thousand people and this ends–and whom we dismissed–so sorry. Even freakshows had some dignity in that there was an actual audience for them.
Honestly, anyone who has grand ideas in my opinion is disconnected from reality. I foresee a future of declining resources, conflict for the remaining resources, a declining standard of living, and strife. No on in the current age has a very clear picture of themselves because 99% of our lives are lived in abstraction. The future looks like the past, with random plagues ginned up by the elites because they think those are a more “humane” way to shrink the population and draw out the timeline resources will last.
This is a very wise comment. The real action is day-to-day, where the Grand Theorists don’t see it, and where the proles need to pretend they’re Grand Theorists to distract from the dirt.
I absolutely think you are right about the birthrate. I’ve resisted this conclusion for years. But it’s a drawdown. They are absolutely doing it. I just wish they’d send you a letter or something saying “we know you know, we’re sorry everyone around you calls you insane, but that’s the price of knowledge.” Or a t-shirt.
There is little doubt that the ascendant elite are on Team Depopulation, but the dying Old Guard still seems keen on flooding the West with the Third World. It is a true case of pick your poison, sans the gimme t-shirt, but it is easier to see whites surviving in the West in truncated fashion with the new people calling the shots, not that this is their endgame.
Well i assume the elites have “grand ideas” and i don’t expect them to work. Unless someone finds a denser even cheaper form of energy that is as safe as oil, my visions will play out. But that doesn’t mean the elites will remain on top. I understand their thinking to a degree. They see White westerners as spoiled, and in lots of ways i agree with them but they’re still my people and i have an old belief in loyalty that many lack today. Old Chinese proverb or curse: May you live in interesting times. The times are most… Read more »
Team Depopulation is Team White Depopulation.
The Tea Party was soon absorbed into the GOP Blob to be neutered. The same fate happened to the occupy Wall Street movement, absorbed into the Democratic half of the Blob.
Good point. But whereas the Tea Party disappeared leaving no trace, the Blob, after engulfing Occupy, moved in Occupy’s direction. This was most apparent in the Blob’s corporations.
I have a theory that is sort of an NRX style “just so story” but I think might have some truth to it which is that I think liberals behave like the tribe. Julie Kelly has mentioned how in interviews with the prospective jurors in DC, the often say that they don’t view Trump voters as americans or people they would want there children to marry. Isn’t that kind of like how j— view iranians? Other examples might be how liberals in places where there not the majority often act like spies or as representatives of a diaspora. A shitlib… Read more »
Fantastic. The closing paragraph in particular. The next step, Z Man, is the one into quietude. Leave the Crusade behind. Because it’s not a Crusade. It’s just an image in our mind.
Too negative. Z-man continues to amaze and will do so, even if there remains but one who listens. He has not reached his ultimate potential.
Yes, negative. Via negativa. The only path.
So uh … the Matrix, right?
I run a hobby page with a reasonably large membership. Today I posted a story about the Houston Texans threatening to leave if they don’t get a billion dollars worth of improvements to their 23-year-old stadium. The fact that we have people in government so stupid as to shovel taxpayer money to billionaires for frivolous things like making their Taj Mahal even more Taj Mahal-ier is absolutely ludicrous. (The Cleveland Browns are doing something similar, but I’m a little more sympathetic since they want a dome. I still think trashing a 20-year-old outdoor stadium is a waste, though.) But a… Read more »
There you went and did it … now I’m trying to image the snappy new uniform of the MAGA police.
So many great visuals in today’s post.
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